Time Zone information

[Barry Brimer]

Quoting "Allen, Jack" <Jack.Allen at mckesson.com>:

> Hello:
>         I have a customer that is running RH AS 4.7 and the time did not
> change this weekend as it was suppose to. I know the time zone for the
> system is located in /etc/localtime. I searched the web for a command
> that would dump the information to show if it is the correct one they
> should be using, but I was not able to find anything. During my
> searching I kept running across things that said that /etc/localtime was
> a symbolic link to /usr/share/zoneinfo/*. On the customer's systems and
> mine /etc/localtime is not a symbolic link. So this could be the problem
> on their system if the tzdata update, updated the time zone information
> in /usr/share/zoneinfo/* assuming /etc/localtime would be pointing to
> the correct updated file.
>
>         So should it be a symbolic link?
>
>         How can I display the information in a time zone file to se the
> settings.

I believe it should be a copy, not a symlink.

This article will explain how things are supposed to work, although it is geared
towards a change in DST, the material is the same.

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-4368

Barry